Add to this the road-ready Rig KONTROL footpedal which offers both hands-free control and supreme sound quality (192kHz/24-bit), and with Native Instruments Guitar Rig 4 KONTROL Edition you have everything you need for studio and stage. Other features include a snapshot function for realtime control of multiple parameters via one switch, balanced stereo output, and separate headphone monitoring. This edition of Guitar Rig 4 also works as a MIDI interface or controller.

I have the Guitar Rig and both the rog kontrol and the cute mobile as well...awesome!Frankly,I also have top notch fx,tube pre amp,wah...from reputed companies and all I can say is that Guitar Rig is very close,if not almost at par with them,if not surpassing on some. It's also a great interface as well for keyboards,vocals,recording...Super!

If you want to step up to recording on the fly,this is your ticket to unlimited tone. Guitar Rig is exclusively made for guitarist and bassist but can also be used by keyboardist and vocalist. Guitar Rig is the most convenient way to record or play live on your pc and mac without all the hiss and latency pops that other sound cards produce. I own guitar rig 2 and now I stepped up to guitar rig 4 because it offers 14 amps,every effect you'll ever need,midi in/out,9 assignable foot switches,1 foot pedal and its black brushed aluminum housing protects the built in 24 bit 192KHz sample rate usb sound card. The software is a giant leap forward in the evolution of modeling amps,effects,microphones and speakers all which can be assigned and mixed via the built in mixer. You also get a tuner,metronome and a loop machine which allow for easy export. Guitar rig works perfectly in stand alone. I use it with confidence inside ableton suite 8 and cubase sx3 as a vst plugin. If you're a traveling guitarist like me,I'm honored to say that my guitar rig has survived being bashed,kicked,inspected by TSA,and dropped on cement. After two years of owning guitar rig,I'm still producing industrial anthems and customizing overdriven saturated distortion to keep the neighbors happy. I highly recommend Guitar Rig 4 because it's built very strong and it's a perfect sound card/guitar software tone solution that will be with you for many years to come.

A certain amount of savvy and know-how are necessary to guarantee good results with Guitar Rig, as end-user systems and hardware vary. Please find the Native Instruments Guitar Rig forum and do your homework.Also, a very important note is that for current Guitar Rig 3 users who want to upgrade to GR4 Pro, the current software build (4.0.8) does NOT include the SNAPSHOT feature. If you have vast amounts of presets that are programmed to use Snapshots, you'll be out of luck. Until (or IF) Native Instruments decides to bring this feature back, you may want to think twice before upgrading. On the other hand, if your live performance needs are fairly straightforward, you should find Guitar Rig 4 Pro Kontrol edition to be a great product. Again, FIND THE FORUMS AND SPEND SOME TIME READING THE COMMENTS FROM CURRENT USERS!

I got this for Christmas, and WOW!! never going back!! This thing has endless possibilities, over 40 effects and 9 assignable buttons along with a expression pedal!! WHO ELSE DOES THAT???? I use a 13" MacBook Pro with it and have never had a problem with speed. I even use it as a interface for GarageBand, and it comes through with amazing tones. I would like it if maybe it had another row of buttons because i would like to have 8 besides the preset ones, but thats minor. If you are looking for a pedal that can be a pedalboard, this is definitely the way to go!!!! No regrets!

I think this is a very good product, I have used it live and had no problems, the sound was good, I only had to focus on what I was playing, all of the effects and amp sims are top notch. for the money this is a very good buy, I use a set of M-audio BX-8a monitors and the sound is excellent, be sure to use balanced cables and you will be amazed at how good your guitar sounds

I think that Software/Hardware based guitar packages (like this) will be the Standard outfit people are going to be going to. You Get so much more for your money and the Quality of sounds and fingertip control to tweak out what ever perfect sound you are looking for Can be had without busting the bank on Gear you would need to get that sound. You will have so much fun with this. Create, Play, Enjoy. I have a Line 6 Pod XT Live peddle board with Gear Box software package and I love it. My Son is in Afghanistan he bought this and had it delivered to me. I have been using it and I LOVE it. A Guitarist has a need to Play but we also look for SOUNDS. Special Sounds, Unique Sounds, Favorite Group Sounds, Our own Sounds this package delivers that to you right in your own home. You now have and entire music store with all the gear you want to play with to tweak out whatever sound you are looking for. You have Studio quality Software and Sound. This is Quality Guitar Gear at its best. I love my Line 6 Pod XT Live peddle board it plugs into the wall. This Peddle will only run off a computers USB. However I find myself running my Pod from the computer 99.99% of the time Because of the SOFTWARE I want to use with it. I paid the same for my L6 pod and if I had to pick only one I would take a bullet in the head because I can Not pick between the 2 NI GR 4 is better on the software end (Sorry Line 6 gear box) about 40% better. L6 Pod XT Live is better on the peddle board end BUT NOT BY MUCH 25 or 30 %. NIGR4 peddle is just as High Quality and Rugged as my Pod. When my Son comes home from Afghanistan and takes NIGR4 away from me I will have to get one for myself its just to great of a product to live without. Quality, Value, FUN.